Keeping the blood flowing safely and in good supply
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BLOOD transfusion is the lifeline of surgery and emergency medical treatment, and the Shanghai Blood Center is at the forefront of ensuring that sufficient supplies of safe blood.
Shanghai Blood Center is the Collaborating Center of World Health Organization for Blood Transfusion Services, one of dozen collaborating centers around world for transfusion service and transfusion medicine.
The Shanghai Blood Center has been working hard to encourage blood donation and to adopt the latest technology for blood screening.
The center was the first in China to apply Nucleic Acid Testing (NAT) technology in routine blood donation screening, which can shorten the “window period” of screening tests for hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV virus to improve blood transfusion safety. The technology has been adopted nationwide now.
“We are helping other provinces and developing countries to improve their blood safety,” said Zhu Yongming, the former president of Shanghai Blood Center and the new president of Chinese Society of Blood Transfusion.
As a WHO collaborating center, he said, his organization seeks to help achieve the goals set forth in the Melbourne Declaration. That means ensuring blood donations are wholly voluntary and received without payment. It also means the development of a system to ensure sufficient and safe blood supplies and their appropriate use.
Zhu said the center has initiated courses to train domestic officials on management of transfusion services, professional development, and research and development in transfusion medicine all over the country. There have been 10 courses since 2008 and they trained more than 460 professionals.
“We also provide education and training programs for managers and technical staff of blood transfusion services in developing countries like Vietnam, Mongolia and East Timor,” he said.
In addition, the center is establishing effective networks in Asian populations for rare blood exchanges and closer integration of resources and technologies.
“We are working on mechanisms to cooperate with other countries to set up channels for the rapid exchange of rare blood donations,” he said. “If a sound mechanism is in place, patients in urgent conditions can receive the blood they need in time.”
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